Komatsu immediately gave up continuing to climb at a large angle and began to switch to level flight to increase speed and regain energy. The two sides are still flying in opposite directions. Komatsu estimated that if everyone continued to fly like this, by the time the two sides approached, his plane should have a chance to fight the enemy by suddenly pulling it up. As far as the weapons used by both sides are concerned, the guns on the American fighters have a higher muzzle velocity, a straighter trajectory, and a higher degree of jīng at long distances, so it should be more advantageous for the US military to face the head on the head. But now, the quality of the pilots of the Rì Army has deteriorated so fast that they have little chance to fire at American fighters in normal combat. Many rookies do not even have a chance to fire at the enemy from the time they rise into the air to the time they are shot down. Therefore, although the head-on shè is theoretically disadvantageous to the rìmoto fighter, it can at least give the poor rìmoto pilot a chance to fire at the enemy. So, up to now, head-on shè has become the favorite situation of the rì pilot, and it happens to be the same as when the war just started.

But now, the American pilots are no longer willing to play head-to-head with Rì himself. Although the head-on exchange ratio is still more beneficial to the U.S. military, the exchange that can be obtained after avoiding the head-on shè is more beneficial to the United States than the United States. You must know that at the level of some pilots, it is difficult to maintain level flight, and all kinds of problems have emerged in one action.

For example, in terms of circling alone, Rì's Zero and Ki-43 are clearly superior to any American fighter, but those rookie pilots can't even play hovering over the Americans. When they were circling, they often moved too hard because they were in a hurry, and as a result, they stalled themselves into a spiral, and then they did not change the technique of the spiral, and as a result, the Americans did not even save bullets, and Rì himself was shot down.

However, Komatsu soon discovered that his abacus might have been wrong. Because the enemy planes on the opposite side were faster than he expected. Leading the way in front of the American fighter group were three squadrons of P-81 fighters. This type of fighter was rarely used in the Pacific theater before, so the Rì army was not familiar with this type of aircraft. Compared with those single-engine aircraft, the P-81 uses two twin wasps and has a total horsepower of more than 4,000 If the advantage over the single-engine propeller fighter is not particularly obvious in terms of top speed due to the limitation of propeller efficiency at high speeds, then the advantage of the P-81 fighter over other single-engine propeller fighters in terms of acceleration is too obvious. In terms of acceleration alone, the maximum acceleration that the P-81 can achieve is even closer to twice that of the P-51. Such a powerful acceleration ability far surpassed that of any fighter that Komatsu had seen before. The acceleration ability of Komatsu's own Type 5 Hurricane fighter is already among the best among Rì military aircraft, but when compared with the acceleration ability of the P-81 fighter, I don't know how much worse. As a result, when the two sides approached a certain distance, Komatsu found that his fighter had not accumulated enough energy for him to pull up and complete a head-to-head confrontation with the Americans, and the Americans did not press the nose to dive towards him, and even pulled the nose slightly, allowing the plane to climb a little higher.

In this way, the fighters of both sides staggered, and neither fired a single shell at the other side. But the next move became the key. As the two sides staggered, Major Lodell made a 180-degree roll and then pulled the cāo pole and dived down.

With enough energy, Komatsu and his wingman can pull up vertically and engage Major Lodell's P-81 in a vertical confrontation. But in the current state of energy, doing so is almost dead. Therefore, Komatsu can only make a small G-value turn to the left to maintain the ability to continuously see enemy aircraft coming from his rear, so that he can make defensive actions at any time.

Lodell dived behind the 6 o'clock of the Rì fighter and pulled up, relying on the high speed of the dive, quickly approaching the enemy plane. The Type 5 Hurricane has a much smaller circling radius than the P-81, so Komatsu could theoretically hover horizontally with a small radius to dodge Lodel's attacks. But this is only theoretical, and in actual combat, it is difficult to grasp the timing of this turn. Turn too early, people pull up, a high yoyo, can still bite you at six o'clock, and consume less energy than you consume. The turn was a little later, because the P-81 was surprisingly good at rolling, and there was a good chance that they would get into the turn before you could finish the 90-degree roll, so that when you started to turn, he would have a chance to get a shè blow with that time advantage. Considering the formidable firepower of the P-81, a single blow could have been fatal. Of course, if you turn a little later, well, the result will be to be beaten directly by someone else.

Komatsu is an "experienced pilot" with nearly 200 flight hours, which is an absolute rookie number in the US military, but on the current side of the Rì Army, he can definitely be regarded as an old pilot. You know, his wingman only flew forty hours. It is very difficult for a pilot with such a small number of flight hours to be expected to accurately grasp such an opportunity when he is basically ignorant of the xìng of enemy aircraft. In general, out of fear, pilots in a disadvantageous position tend to make such a move in advance. However, Komatsu kept suppressing his fear, constantly looking back at the distance between the enemy plane and himself, and calculating the time for his own actions. Being able to do this actually shows that Komatsu still has some talent as a fighter pilot. If he is given enough time, he may also be able to grow into a very deadly ace against his enemies.

But now, the Americans will not give him such time. By the time Komatsu decided to start turning, it was a little too late, and by the time he had completed the 90-degree roll and then pulled the cāo lever into a sharp turn, a dense array of 20mm shells had already hit, and in the blink of an eye, Komatsu's Type 5 Hurricane had already hit five or six 20mm shells. The shells tore through Komatsu's fighter's skin, splitting its right wing in two. There was also a cannonball that hit Komatsu's cockpit directly, ending all of Komatsu's fear and pain.

Almost at the same time, Lodel's wingman also bit Komatsu's wingman and knocked out the plane's vertical tail and left tail with a string of shells. The plane also spun and fell.

As a result of the erroneous interpretation of the US fighters as bombers, their fighters did not engage the enemy at the same time, but one after the other. There was a difference of nearly half an hour between the first batch of Rì fighters and the last group of Rì fighters that came into contact with U.S. fighters. Therefore, although the Rìben fighter surpassed the US military in terms of total numbers, it was much less than the American fighter in the number of any one batch. This gave the U.S. military a chance to break through. It is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of quantity, the technical level of the pilots is at an absolute disadvantage, the fighter is also at an absolute disadvantage in terms of ability, and the flight situation is still at an absolute disadvantage. This led to a massacre of pilots that was even more tragic than the Mariana turkey hunt.

Within half a minute of Lodell and his wingman each shooting down a rìmoto plane, the US fighter formation shot down all 16 fighters in Komatsu's flight formation, and they did not lose a single one!

This change almost stunned Rì himself, the original little sheep suddenly turned into a big tiger, and the original hungry wolf with teeth and claws suddenly became a little fat sheep to be slaughtered. So over Tokyo, the radio was in chaos for a while, and in the channel of the rì army, there were shouts everywhere:

"Attention, attention, the enemy is not a bomber, it is a fighter! It's a fighter! ”

"Tonghua formation, turn to the direction of 096 and go to rendezvous with the Senbon formation! Please reply when you hear it! ”

"Call Command! Discover the enemy's new heavy fighter with blazing speed and fast climbing! Be careful, everyone! ”

"He's biting me! Who's going to help me get rid of him! Ah......h

"I was hit!"

Rì himself actually wanted to avoid the battle altogether, but the worst thing was that the airspace of the battle was already over Tokyo City at this time. Countless Tokyo citizens who survived the catastrophe are watching the battle with their heads held high. At this time, if the plane of the imperial army fled from the wind, the impact would be too bad. As a result, the fighter still had to be constantly engaged in the battle. So the people watching the battle below have "eye blessings".

"Hooray! Another fight was made! Banzai! On the streets of Tokyo, the onlookers cheered.

"Hooray! Another one! Banzai! Long live the Emperor! Kill the American ghost animal! …… Ah, there's another one that's smoking! ”

One fighter plane after another fell in flames, and some were even beaten into fireworks directly in the air, and the battle was carried out at an altitude of more than 7,000 meters, and it was difficult for people on the ground to see clearly the state of the air battle, but the fighters could still be seen falling on fire. But where can ordinary civilians tell which fighter was hit and shot down? At this time, a man with only one arm came up with the following sentence: "Are all American planes shot down?" Can you tell the difference? I look at it like a rì plane. Immediately attracted a scolding:

"You non-national! What nonsense are you talking about! ”

"How could the Great Rì Empire lose? It must have been an American plane that was shot down! ”

"Where are you from? How come I haven't seen you before? jǐng Cha! There's a suspicious guy here! ”

At this time, a parachute floated down leisurely.

"There's an American ghost animal on the ground! Go shoot him! So everyone ran in the direction where the parachute fell, and only the "non-national" was still standing.

"What a bunch of fools!" The man sighed, "That parachute is obviously a rì standard parachute!" ”